"One of the rare guys who can always make me laugh"? Sir Terry Pratchett
"Stark, raving genius"? The Observer

"He becomes funnier the more you read him"? The Independent

"Douglas Adams on a sugar high"? Kirkus

"A heady mix of Flann O'Brien, Douglas Adams, Tom Sharpe and Ken Campbell, but with an inbuilt irreverence and indelicacy that is unique - and makes it the long-awaited, heavy smoker's answer to The Lord Of The Rings' ? Time Out

NEW REVISED EDITION FOR 2025

GLORY BE AND HAIL BRENTFORD.

THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
After more than a decade, Jim Pooley, John Omally, Neville, Norman, Professor Slocombe and all, make a welcome return to Brentford for their greatest ever adventure. Spanning three books, of which this is the first, Robert Rankin is proud to present to you a mighty epic that will be the final Brentford Trilogy (no, really!). So, what's it all about then?

Well...
They are building a ring road around Brentford. Why? Well, no one seems to know for sure. No one that is, but for the unfeasibly charismatic town clerk, Mr Pocklington. A man of somewhat supernatural abilities.

Could there possibly be more to this ring road business than meets the eye, we ask ourselves.

Might there just be something really really sinister going on which may spell doom and desolation, not only for London's best loved borough, but the very world as we know it? Might there be, perchance, an ancient enemy bent upon hideous revenge, reawakening? Could this indeed be something of a mind-boggling, world -threatening persuasion?

Well, of course it could. Because this is Brentford and there wouldn't be much of a story otherwise.

First published in 2017, THE LORD OF THE RING ROADS is a classic of Far Fetched Fiction, a genre created by author Robert Rankin in hopes of having his own shelf in bookstores. Now, this tenth novel in the "Brentford Quadrilogy of trilogies" has been reimagined and repackaged for 2025 by Hooded Man Media and Far-Fetched Books.

If you enjoy the works of Douglas Adams, Jasper Fforde, and Terry Pratchett, then don't miss out on THE LORD OF THE RING ROADS and the wild imagination of Robert Rankin, and grab your copy now before the price changes!

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"????? Superbly written from the first line to the last. Hilarious, witty, tense, spine tingling, a modern and funny work that rivals Dickens and Wodehouse"

"????? Many people describe books as 'laugh out loud funny' and while they are often quite amusing, this book is the only one to have EVER made good on that promise."

"????? I still turn to it when I need a laugh and it never disappoints."

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